13-02-2016, 07:42 PM
I agree with JPK about its being an abbreviated text. I'm not sure who first proposed the idea; I daresay it has been around for a while and proposed by different persons for different reasons.
I decided it was probable because the imagery is so very condensed - and the manuscript is a size which suggests it was first meant to be carried about, and for that reason too a condensed text would make sense.
As well as that, it 'works' as a condensed text. After seeing Don Hoffmann's work, and Julian Bunn's, I tried a few different sorts of technical and abbreviated texts, and the text very happily meshed with all of them - yes *all*.
So I think it's written in that style, and am happy to see that more people are coming to think the same - Don must be chuffed too, because I think he was the first to really work on the idea in any detail, and try to demonstrate it. I'm not convinced by his 'translation' but very much so by the model he has provided.
I decided it was probable because the imagery is so very condensed - and the manuscript is a size which suggests it was first meant to be carried about, and for that reason too a condensed text would make sense.
As well as that, it 'works' as a condensed text. After seeing Don Hoffmann's work, and Julian Bunn's, I tried a few different sorts of technical and abbreviated texts, and the text very happily meshed with all of them - yes *all*.
So I think it's written in that style, and am happy to see that more people are coming to think the same - Don must be chuffed too, because I think he was the first to really work on the idea in any detail, and try to demonstrate it. I'm not convinced by his 'translation' but very much so by the model he has provided.